The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-29

Extreme quakerishness in dress is the proper
thing for church.
See that your handkerchefs all have narrow
hens if you would be in fashion
White hands with rosy palms, so beloved of our
grandmothers. have gone out of fashion.
Buttons play an important part in gowns
nowadays The most fashionable are che bullet
shaped crocheted ones, revived after sleep OF
twenty years.
The tea gown seems to have taken closer hold
fashionable society, and looser hold. SO to
speak. each individual fashionable wearer
than ever before.
Lace frocks for graduation made up over
white lawn this year. and found to be as
pretty they were when made over white silk,
and far less costly.
The only reason black silks not more worn
is that reliable black silk is about the hardest
material to get. matter how much you are
willing TO pay for it, which does not speak well
for the honesty of manufacturers.
Very pretty summer wraps also made of
various ni6serials matching the dress-summer
silks. foulards, real French sateens, striped and
dotted louisines and the like, having small peer-
ines of the same, these usually trimmed with
pipings. rows of narrow velvet, or with peatings
Of the goods.
Plain and striped grenadines are combined this
summer precisely plain and striped silks
used to make heavier frocks. The stripes
pose the waist and drapery. il it be desirable to
reduce the wearer's apparent size, or If she be
slender they. make the skirt, and the draperes
and waist plain.
jackets of Roman-red camels hair. with silk
cord applique ornaments and buttons in black,
will be worn over summer gowns at the various
watering places next season. They cut
rather longer than the poppy-red cloth jackets
worn last summer. and in most the posti-
lion back il omitted. The most stylish and
pensive models have fancy vests and are lined
with amber surah.
Nghtgowns now made up with frils like
old-fashioned shirt fris. extending down the
front; but this is only one of some half hundred
varieties making the night garment almost
rs elaborate MS those worn in the day time Pink
silk, with Vatican plat, yoke of embroidery,
sleeves Of silk tucks and embroidery and frlls of
lace might make fairly good tea gown
morning wrapper.
Boston Transcript: Anybody looking about
for article OF dress OF which the history is
most typical of American civilization, should
take the Time was when it donned
with the first gray hair; now it is put with
reluctance when almost the last white one has
gone and something must be used to conceal tho
fastening of the various frizettes. and brads,
and other hair-dressers' devices. Then the
cap had a definite crown, which covered the
whole back OF the head, hand which covered
the front. and puffs over the ears. and ribbons
were run in here and there in styles varying
from year to year. Brussels net, and the
choicest thread Brussels lace none too
good for these elaborate structures. and women
who first wore muslin arranged in a more be-
coming and airy fashion were regarded with dis
trust. and those who substituted black lace for
white not considered to be stcklers for
neatness But now the smaller the cap the bet
ter and gray white hair is carefully ar
ranged as If it were golden or raven.